1903-03-20 Humansville, Missouri, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. Early life Edgar Buchanan was born to Rose (Kee) Buchanan and William Edgar Buchanan Sr., DDS in Humansville, Missouri. He moved with his family to Oregon when he was seven. His father had a dental practice in Eugene, Oregon, and encouraged his son to follow suit. Buchanan Senior did not approve of his son's acting ambitions and pushed him to pursue dentistry instead. According to authors Arden and Joan Christen, Edgar's father believed "to choose a career in the theater was to settle for a life of mediocrity and uncertainty". Nevertheless, Edgar took courses in theater at the University of Oregon as a pre-med student, and was part of a Portland acting troupe in graduate school. He was also involved in the founding of the Portland Civic Theatre. In 1928, Edgar earned his DDS degree from North Pacific College School of Dentistry in Portland, Oregon, which later became Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry. During his time there, he met his future wife, Mildred "Millie" Spence (1907–1987). They married in 1928 - the same year they both graduated with dental degrees. The couple adopted a son and named him William Edgar "Buck" Buchanan III. Big changes came in 1939 when the family of three relocated their dental practice from Eugene, Oregon, to Altadena, California. There, Edgar joined the Pasadena Playhouse as an actor. Studio scouts spotted him performing at the playhouse and signed him into a seven-year deal in Hollywood. That same year, he appeared in his first film at age 36, and he left dentistry for good. Meanwhile, his wife, Dr. Millie Buchanan, DDS, took over the dental practice while also supporting her husband's new career as his talent manager. Career Buchanan appeared in more than 100 films, including Texas (1941), in which he played a dentist and appeared with William Holden and Glenn Ford and later in Penny Serenade (1941) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942) with Ronald Colman, Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, The Man from Colorado (1948), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), Shane (1953), She Couldn't Say No (1954), Ride the High Country (1962) with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, McLintock! (1963) with John Wayne, Move Over, Darling (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner, and Benji (1974). Death Buchanan died from a stroke complicated by pneumonia in Palm Desert, California in 1979. He was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. CLR Description above from the Wikipedia article Edgar Buchanan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The History of Hooterville | Self (archive footage) | 2005-10-19 |
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
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Benji | Bill | 1974-10-17 |
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The Marshal of Madrid | Deputy JJ Jackson | 1972-01-01 |
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Sam Cade | J.J. Jackson | 1972-01-01 |
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Yuma | Mules McNeil | 1971-03-02 |
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The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again | Jason Fitch | 1970-11-16 |
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The Over the Hill Gang | Jason Fitch | 1969-07-06 |
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Angel in My Pocket | Axel Gresham | 1969-04-02 |
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Something for a Lonely Man | Old Man Wolenski | 1968-11-26 |
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Welcome to Hard Times | Brown | 1967-04-30 |
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Gunpoint | Bull | 1966-04-25 |
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The Rounders | Vince Moore | 1965-01-08 |
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The Man from Button Willow | Sorry (voice) | 1965-04-03 |
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A Ticklish Affair | Captain Martin / Gramps | 1963-08-18 |
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Move Over, Darling | Judge Bryson | 1963-12-19 |
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McLintock! | Bunny Dull | 1963-11-12 |
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Donovan's Reef | Francis O'Brien | 1963-06-12 |
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Flashing Spikes | Crab Holman | 1962-10-04 |
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Ride the High Country | Judge Tolliver | 1962-05-09 |
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The Comancheros | Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen | 1961-12-16 |
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Devil's Partner | Doc Lucas | 1961-09-19 |
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Tammy Tell Me True | Judge Carver | 1961-07-26 |
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Chartroose Caboose | Woodrow 'Woody' Watts | 1960-12-28 |
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Stump Run | 1960-01-01 | |
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Four Fast Guns | Dipper | 1960-02-10 |
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Cimarron | Judge Neal Hefner | 1960-12-01 |
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Hound-Dog Man | Doc Cole | 1959-11-11 |
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It Started with a Kiss | Congressman Richard Tappe | 1959-08-19 |
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Edge of Eternity | Sheriff Edwards | 1959-11-02 |
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King of the Wild Stallions | Idaho | 1959-05-17 |
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The Sheepman | Milt Masters | 1958-05-01 |
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Day of the Badman | Sam Wyckoff | 1958-01-29 |
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Spoilers of the Forest | Tom Duncan | 1957-04-04 |
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Come Next Spring | Mr. Canary | 1956-03-09 |
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Rage at Dawn | Judge | 1955-03-26 |
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Wichita | Doc Black | 1955-07-03 |
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The Brush Roper | Sub Doyal | 1955-11-23 |
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The Silver Star | Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon) | 1955-04-07 |
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The Lonesome Trail | Dan Wells | 1955-07-01 |
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Human Desire | Alec Simmons | 1954-08-05 |
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Make Haste to Live | Sheriff Lafe | 1954-03-25 |
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Dawn at Socorro | Sheriff Cauthen | 1954-09-01 |
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Destry | The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor | 1954-12-01 |
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She Couldn't Say No | Ed Meeker | 1954-02-15 |
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It Happens Every Thursday | Jake | 1953-04-22 |
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Shane | Fred Lewis | 1953-04-23 |
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Wild Stallion | John Wintergreen | 1952-04-27 |
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Toughest Man in Arizona | Jim Hadlock | 1952-10-10 |
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Flaming Feather | Sgt. O'Rourke | 1952-02-01 |
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The Big Trees | Walter 'Yukon' Burns | 1952-02-05 |
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Silver City | Dutch Surrency | 1951-12-01 |
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The Great Missouri Raid | Dr. Samuels | 1951-02-01 |
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Cave of Outlaws | Dobbs | 1951-11-01 |
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Rawhide | Sam Todd | 1951-03-25 |
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Devil's Doorway | Zeke Carmody | 1950-08-18 |
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Cheaper by the Dozen | Dr. Burton | 1950-03-31 |
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The Big Hangover | Uncle Fred Mahoney | 1950-05-26 |
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Cargo to Capetown | Sam Bennett | 1950-04-01 |
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The Walking Hills | Old Willy | 1949-03-05 |
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Any Number Can Play | Ed | 1949-07-15 |
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Lust for Gold | Wiser | 1949-06-10 |
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Red Canyon | Jonah Johnson | 1949-04-27 |
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Best Man Wins | Jim Smiley | 1948-05-06 |
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The Wreck of the Hesperus | George Lockhart | 1948-02-04 |
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Coroner Creek | Sheriff O'Hea | 1948-07-01 |
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The Swordsman | Angus MacArden | 1948-01-02 |
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The Untamed Breed | John Rambeau | 1948-10-20 |
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The Man from Colorado | Doc Merriam | 1948-08-07 |
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Adventures in Silverado | Dr. Hendersonn | 1948-03-25 |
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The Black Arrow | Lawless | 1948-03-18 |
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Framed | Jeff Cunningham | 1947-05-25 |
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The Sea of Grass | Jeff | 1947-04-25 |
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Perilous Holiday | George Richards | 1946-03-20 |
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | Friar Tuck | 1946-02-21 |
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Renegades | Kirk Dembrow | 1946-06-13 |
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If I'm Lucky | Darius J. Magonnagle | 1946-09-02 |
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Abilene Town | Sheriff Bravo Trimble | 1946-01-11 |
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down | George Bradford | 1946-06-07 |
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The Fighting Guardsman | Brown | 1945-04-24 |
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Strange Affair | Lt. Washburn | 1944-10-05 |
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Bride by Mistake | Jonathan Connors | 1944-07-26 |
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The Impatient Years | Judge | 1944-09-10 |
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Buffalo Bill | Sgt. Chips McGraw | 1944-04-02 |
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The Desperadoes | Uncle Willie McLeod | 1943-05-25 |
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates | Jonesey Jones | 1943-06-29 |
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City Without Men | Judge Michael T. Mallory | 1943-01-14 |
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Destroyer | Kansas Jackson | 1943-08-19 |
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The Talk of the Town | Sam Yates | 1942-08-20 |
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die | Curly Bill | 1942-06-13 |
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Penny Serenade | Applejack Carney | 1941-04-24 |
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Texas | Buford 'Doc' Thorpe | 1941-10-09 |
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Her First Beau | Elmer Tuttle | 1941-05-08 |
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You Belong to Me | Billings | 1941-10-22 |
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The Richest Man in Town | Pete Martin | 1941-08-02 |
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Arizona | Judge Bogardus | 1940-12-25 |
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Escape to Glory | Charles Atterbee | 1940-05-20 |
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When the Daltons Rode | Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited) | 1940-08-23 |
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Too Many Husbands | McDermott | 1940-04-03 |
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Tear Gas Squad | Cousin Andy | 1940-05-04 |
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The Sea Hawk | Ben Rollins | 1940-08-10 |
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My Son Is Guilty | Dan, Bartender | 1939-12-28 |
